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End user domain name sales up to $275,000

From .com to .de to .Cloud, here are domain names end users bought over the past week.

There are some weeks where I have to really hunt to find the end user sales on Sedo’s sales list. Not this week.

Sedo had a number of great (and easy-to-identify) end user sales. One still has a bit of mystery, though. Who bought Spend.com for $275,000?

You’ll also notice that a lot of this week’s sales were to companies that own a country code domain name and wanted the matching .com domain name. Domain names are tricky for European companies given the importance of ccTLDs there. Jesper Knudsen and Jochen Kieler explained this on DNW Podcast #146.

Here’s the list of end user domain name sales from the past week at Sedo:

Spend.com $275,000 – I don’t know who bought it yet because the domain name is under Whois privacy. However, the buyer has switched the DNS to point to hosting company Linode and has installed WordPress. Keep an eye on this one.

EconomyBooking.com $30,000 – Car rental company Booking Group SIA operates EconomyBookings.com, so this was a defensive purchase for them.

Datenschutzbeauftragte.com €10,000 – This is German for “Data protection commissioner”. It was purchased by the owner of datenschutzvorfall, which is German for “data protection incident”. There’s already an operating website on the domain.

DTAD.com €5,000 – Not to be confused with DSAD.com, DTAD Deutscher Auftragsdienst AG bought the .com to match its DTAD.de domain name.

Jamble.com $4,995 – The domain has Whois privacy but the owner is developing some sort of chat or dating site.

ValleyHospice.com $4,570 – Valley is one of those geo terms that’s generic enough to apply to multiple places. In this case, Valley Health System in New Jersey.

SmartInvestors.com €4,500 – The buyer is creating a site that promises to uncover “Wall Street Gems Before They Become Giants”. I don’t know anything about the owner’s stock-picking prowess, but s/he’s a good domain picker.